Moment · Deciding on treatment
Choosing between treatments
Breast Cancer
Woven from the experiences of 1,416 women. Patient-reported, not medical guidance.
The surgical decision is the one that carries the most weight — specifically the choice between lumpectomy and mastectomy, and between unilateral and bilateral. Women describe going back and forth for weeks. What makes it hardest is that the decision is irreversible, it arrives when the capacity to think clearly is lowest, and the right answer depends on things only the patient knows about herself.
In their words
Composite quotes, representative of many women, not verbatim.
“My surgeon said lumpectomy was a reasonable option medically. I still pushed for bilateral. Not because I disagreed with her — I understood the data. But I knew I couldn't spend the rest of my life monitoring the other side. That peace of mind was worth more to me than the surgery.”
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